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Currently: Higher education academic & adminstrator. Alumni: USMC (Infantry) & University of Florida (PhD)
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God I miss San Francisco.

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“The DOE's letter is a blatant overreach from the SFFA decision that goes far beyond repressive legalism and attempts to bully universities into adopting a suicide pact by narrowing access to higher education for deserving students of all backgrounds.” #highered www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

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a simple and surefire emotional lift: ignore the algorithm and listen to a beloved album that your streaming platform doesn't know to suggest. sorry for the earnestness but every time I do this I get a surplus of good vibes

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

We are so close to having the crime app from Westworld. gizmodo.com/uber-for-arm...

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Good? Bad? AI is coming to #highered whether you like it or not. news.sonoma.edu/article/csu-...

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The Right: Toxic Masculinity isn't real Also the Right: Men need to be heroes to stay sane.

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There are a lot of questions in our inbox these days about data (and payment) security at the IRS, the Social Security Administration and other places, with teenagers and 20-somethings rooting around in the systems. Back up everything, for any numbers of reasons. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/b...

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Given developments at the Kennedy Center, effective today I am resigning as artistic advisor to the NSO. Not for me. It’s been a wonderful 8 years working with Kennedy Center President Deb Rutter, fellow artistic advisor Renee Fleming, NSO artistic administrator Justin Ellis, and the entire NSO

submitted 9 days ago • 507 comments

Just about every cyberpunk novel has protagonists carrying data on discs stored in their bodies to avoid hackers and here we are talking about sharing data on CD-ROMs to avoid our own government deleting it in a fit of pique. The 90s are BACK baby! #highered

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The @chronicle.com just dropped an interactive tool to see how much federal funding your university will lose if the NIH 15% cap goes through. #highered #research #NIH www.chronicle.com/article/trum...

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MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”

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Pro-democracy Organizing against Autocracy in the United States: A Strategic Assessment & Recommendations www.hks.harvard.edu/publications...

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From Elizabeth Bruenig: "The tendency of humankind to be self-serving and deceitful is part of what makes me believe that Christianity is at its purest and most beautiful when it is counterintuitive and unwieldy—that is, when it is least amenable to human convenience."

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